From 65b0f718e64f1a307236c38688e73ccb061b2b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TabulateJarl8 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:24:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add more facts --- randfacts/__version__.py | 2 +- randfacts/safe.txt | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 318 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-) diff --git a/randfacts/__version__.py b/randfacts/__version__.py index cfb3725..27c267d 100644 --- a/randfacts/__version__.py +++ b/randfacts/__version__.py @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ __title__ = "randfacts" __description__ = "Package to generate random facts" __url__ = "https://github.com/TabulateJarl8/randfacts" -__version__ = "0.15.1" +__version__ = "0.16.0" __author__ = "Tabulate" __author_email__ = "tabulatejarl8@gmail.com" __license__ = "MIT" diff --git a/randfacts/safe.txt b/randfacts/safe.txt index c0a084d..28b08fe 100644 --- a/randfacts/safe.txt +++ b/randfacts/safe.txt @@ -4843,105 +4843,11 @@ There is a United Arab Emirates' territory inside an Oman's territory that itsel Disappointment Island is an uninhabited island in New Zealand. Over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross live there. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed on the island which killed 68 people, leaving the 15 survivors waiting 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship ended up crashing there and 12 men drowned. During the entire run of Gilligan's Island, it was never revealed if "Gilligan" was his first or last name. When Jorge Garcia first got the part on LOST as Hurley, he lost a total of 30 pounds in weight before filming started. -Polar bear fur is actually clear, and their skin is black. -Baby flamingos are born grey, not pink. -A woodpecker's tongue actually wraps all the way around its brain, protecting it from damage when it's hammering into a tree. -Elephants suck on their trunks for comfort. -Anteaters have no teeth. -Nine-banded armadillos always have quadruplets, and they're always identical. -Hippos and horses are actually distant relatives. -All clownfish are born male. -In the UK, The Queen legally owns all unmarked swans. -To keep from drifting apart, sea otters hold hands while they sleep. -Dolphins give names to each other. Gorillas can catch human colds -The turkey was once almost named the national bird. -There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear. -Snails can regenerate their eyes. Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt. -A starfish can turn its stomach inside out. -French Poodles are actually from Germany. -Seahorses mate for life and can often be seen holding each other's tales. -A group of porcupines is called a prickle. -Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn't stop swearing. -Sloths can hold their breaths for up to 40 minutes. -Henry VIII knighted all four of his "Grooms of Stool" - the people in charge of wiping his butt for him. -Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress four years before women could even vote. -Women couldn't apply for credit at a bank until 1974. -Before the invention of modern false teeth, dentures were commonly made from the teeth of dead soldiers. -In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh. -It was once considered sacrilegious to use a fork. Abe Lincoln was a champion wrestler. He was also a licensed bartender. -George Washington owned a whiskey distillery. -More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War. -Joseph Stalin used to have people removed from photos after they died or were removed from office. -Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with the necessary items for making tea. -Pope Gregory IV once declared war on cats because he believed Satan used black cats. His declaration lead to the mass extermination of cats. -That lack of cats led to a rat infestation which led to the spread of the plague. -John Adams was the first president to live in the White House. -Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Challenger explosion have all been attributed to a lack of sleep. -The average person living in Sweden eats about 22 pounds of chocolate a year. -While the Wright Brothers are famous as a pair, they actually only flew together once. They promised their father they'd always fly separately. -Montana has three times as many cows as it does people. -Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice. -Ninety percent of the world's population lives above the equator. -Finland has more saunas than cars. -Sixty percent of the World's lakes (three million total) are located in Canada. -Virginia is the only state that has the same state flower and state tree, the Dogwood. -Think before you season. In Egypt, it's considered incredibly rude to salt food that has been served to you. -Ninety percent of Libya is desert. -The height of the Eiffel Tour can vary up to six inches, depending on the temperature. -Spend too much on drinks when you eat out? A small town in Italy actually has a fountain that serves free wine. -Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don't both end up with food poisoning. -Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day. There's a city named Rome on six out of seven continents. -When visiting Key West, you're actually closer to Havana than you are to Miami. -Mary, of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" fame, was a real person and the song is based on a true story. -"Happy Birthday" was the first song ever played on Mars. Mars Rover Curiosity played the song to itself on its first anniversary on the planet. -While listening to music, your heart can sync to the rhythm. -President Nixon was an accomplished musician. He played five instruments, including the accordion. -Got a song stuck in your head? That's called an "earworm." -None of The Beatles could actually read music. -George Harrison could reportedly play 26 instruments. -Barry Manilow did not, in fact, write "I Write The Songs." -Metallica is the only band to perform on all seven continents. -Most department stores tend to play slower music, in order to slow down customers and keep them shopping longer. The opposite is true for restaurants. -Monaco's orchestra is bigger than its army. -A concert promoter once sold a thousand tickets to a Spice Girls concert in Hawaii that was never actually booked. Maybe that's where they got the idea for Fyre Fest. -Leo Fender, the inventor of the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, couldn't play guitar. -In 2016, Mozart sold more albums than Beyoncé. -During a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, someone donated $35,000 so that VH1 Classic would have to play "99 Luftballons" on repeat for an entire hour. -"A Boy Named Sue" wasn't written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it. -In 2015, Belfast police used ice cream truck music to deter teenage rioters. -Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators. -China didn't win its first Olympic medal until 1984. -The average golf ball has 336 dimples. -Tennis was originally played with bare hands. -The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in or host a Super Bowl. -Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame. -Some golf balls are filled with honey. -Despite taking about three hours to play out, the average baseball game only has about 18 minutes of active playing time. -MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case they split their pants. -Bo Jackson refused the teams that originally tried to draft him in both baseball and football. -Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts. -Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls once went eight seasons (starting in 1990) without a three-game losing streak. -President Hubert Hoover invented a game called "Hooverball" which was a cross between tennis and volleyball and was played with a medicine ball. -Only one city has won three major championships in one year. In 1935, the Detroit Lions won the Super Bowl, the Tigers won the world series, and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup. -In WWII British soldiers had to make do with only three sheets of toilet paper per day! -In Russia, beer was considered a soft drink, not alcohol, until 2011! -Strawberries are NOT berries, but bananas actually are! -A tomato is actually a fruit. -The cashew nuts we eat are actually attached to a large cashew apple that is used to make soft drinks in Brazil. -Mice do not like cheese. They prefer sweets if given the choice - they like to eat fruit, seeds, and grains. -Turkey was probably not eaten at the first Thanksgiving - instead, wildfowl, goose, and possibly passenger pigeons and swans were consumed. -Mice have pretty funny names: A female mouse is a doe and a male mouse is a buck. Baby mice are sometimes called pinkies because of their color and sometimes called pups. -Gorillas, monkeys, bonobos, and other primates make a new nest to sleep in every night. -Chickens don't just eat seeds, they like to eat insects and also mice and lizards. -Giraffes don't just have long necks: They have long tongues. Their tongues are between 18 and 20 inches long. -In Arizona, you can't feed garbage to pigs without getting a permit. -Sea otters like to hold each other's paws when they sleep, so they don't drift apart while dreaming. Apples come from the same plant family as roses. So do plums, raspberries, and many other delicious fruits. -The first Akita dog came to this country in 1937 - as a present for Helen Keller. Turns out, a dog's paw print is just as unique as a human's. A camel can drink up to 40 gallons of water in one go. Fortune telling is illegal in Maryland. @@ -4949,41 +4855,21 @@ The technical term for a fear of long words is ""hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliop The White House has 35 bathrooms. Greyhounds can run up to 45 mph. Hiking naked is illegal in Switzerland. -A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance. New York's Central Park is bigger than Monaco. -Using ferrets to hunt other animals is illegal in West Virginia. There are over 9,000 benches in Central Park. -Theodore Roosevelt's kids had a pet bear, badger, and hyena, to name but a few animals - and they brought them all to the White House. There are over 700 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. Saturn's surface is less dense than water. -The expression "heart of gold" was invented by Shakespeare. To make one pound of honey, a bee has to fly 90,000 miles. One bee typically only makes one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. -The United States apparently makes 25 percent of the world's cheese. The human hand has 54 bones. Most U.S. stamp adhesive contains about one-tenth of a calorie. British stamps could set you back 5.9 calories. Crows hold funerals for their dead. -Bees are the only insect that produce food that people eat. -Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. -Jin Songhao of China won the world record for longest skin contact with snow at 46 minutes and 7 seconds! -The heaviest onion on record was grown by Pete Glazebrook of England which weighed 17 pounds. -The title of tallest Mohawk goes to Kazuhito Watanabe, a Japanese fashion designer. It measures three feet 8.6 inches. -Elmer Fudd's original name was Egghead. -The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie mouse from the 1980s to the 2010s were married. -In some Harry Potter movie scenes where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are doing their Hogwarts schoolwork, the actors were actually doing their real schoolwork. The oldest domestic cat on record lived for 38 years. -Little brown bats make for the longest nappers - in captivity, they nap up to 19.9 hours a day. The longest noodle ever made is more than 10,000 feet long, or almost two miles. -Otto the bulldog broke the record for dog to skate through the longest human tunnel when he skated through the legs of 30 people without any assistance. A flock of peacocks is called a party. The Supreme Court has its own basketball court. We believe that time stops at the speed of light. -Humans wouldn't be able to taste food without saliva. -If Betelgeuse exploded right now, the star's last light show would brighten our sky for around two months. -Oona Chaplin, who played Robb Stark's wife in Game of Thrones, is Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter. The founder of sportswear companies Puma and Adidas were brothers. -The only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in any American state is q. -The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed in Chicago, Illinois, by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. While SPAM is most popular in Hawaii, it was actually invented in Minnesota. The world's longest French fry is 34-inches long. Garlic bulbs are full of Vitamin C, iron, potassium, magnesium, zinc and more. They also has 17 amino acids. @@ -5067,7 +4953,6 @@ Babe Ruth began his career as a pitcher: Ruth was both a left-handed pitcher and The record for the long jump is held by Mike Powell: 29 ft. + 4 inches. That's like jumping the length of two minivans! The most medals won for Olympic basketball (male or female) are both held by women: Teresa Edwards and Lisa Leslie with four gold medals each. Wilma Rudolph (who set the world record in 1960 for 100, 200 and 4x100-meter relay) had polio, scarlet fever and pneumonia as a child, leading doctors to believe she'd never walk again. -NFL Super Bowl referees also get Super Bowl rings. In 1919, Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell was struck by lightning in the middle of the 9th inning. He kept playing! The 'G' on the Green Bay Packers helmet stands for "greatness" not Green Bay! Baseballs last an average of seven pitches. @@ -5159,7 +5044,6 @@ Madonna has brontophobia, which is the fear of thunder. In June 2017, the Facebook community reached 2 billion active users. Samuel L. Jackson requested a purple lightsaber in Star Wars to accept the part as Mace Windu. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th. -Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks. In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes. During your lifetime, you will spend around seventy-nine days brushing your teeth. Ronald McDonald is "Donald McDonald" in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. @@ -5585,7 +5469,6 @@ Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum). If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth. The average human head weighs about 8 pounds. -In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year. Your skull is made up of 29 different bones. @@ -5694,7 +5577,6 @@ The World's Largest Pumpkin Weighs More Than a Sports Car Doctors Who Play Video Games More Than Three Hours a Week Make Fewer Operating Room Errors The Average American Woman Owns Seven Pairs of Jeans and Only Wears Four Dolly Parton Lost a Dolly Parton Lookalike Contest -An NFL Referee Can Also Get a Super Bowl Ring The Lines on the Inside of Your Wrist Have a Name New York City Is Going to Get Bigger to Prepare for Climate Change A Sneeze Sounds Different Around the World @@ -5732,7 +5614,6 @@ Scientists Believe They've Found Fossils from the Day the Asteroid Killed the Di Barry Manilow Wrote the State Farm and Band-Aid Jingles The "ManhattAnt" Is a Species of Ant Unique to New York City Mr. Clean's Name Changes Around the Globe -Goats Have Unique Accents The Earth Weighs About 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pounds The World's Oldest Tortoise is Twice as Old as Queen Elizabeth Charles Dickens Always Had His Bed Facing North @@ -5914,7 +5795,6 @@ Children's book author, Roald Dahl was a spy. NASCAR drivers lose weight while racing. Indians read the most in the world. Cap'n Crunch was once sued for not using real berries. -Cap'n Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch. The most widely printed book in the world is the catalog for IKEA. Crocodiles are one of the planet's oldest living creatures. The Aurora Borealis has a sister phenomenon. @@ -6016,7 +5896,6 @@ Only one capital in the U.S has no McDonald's. People used to answer the phone with "ahoy". Playing dance music helps ward off mosquitoes. Billy goats urinate on their heads to become more attractive. -Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie. Among all the Disney princesses, Mulan has the highest kill count. Pinocchio cannot say 'my nose will grow now'. You are 13.8% more likely to die on your date of birth. @@ -6225,9 +6104,6 @@ A jail for polar bears exists. There is a part of Yellowstone National Park where a person could theoretically get away with murder due to a loophole. The eighth power of a number is a zenzizenzizenzic. Cosmic Latte is the average color of the universe. -McDonald's once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli -Scotland has over 400 words for "snow" -Firefighters sometimes use wetting agents to make water wetter. There was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution in 1916 that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army. A Japanese company gives its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for smoking breaks. "Military Grade" is a marketing ploy. In the actual military, "military grade" is defined as "meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least." @@ -6266,7 +6142,6 @@ It is illegal to stand within 90 meters of the Queen without socks on. Australia has the most amount of reptiles in the world You might think that stars are all the same, but each star is a different color depending on their temperature. As well as having unique finger prints, we all have unique tongue prints. -Caterpillars have 12 eyes! There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on a beach. It would take only one hour to drive to space. It is impossible to lick your own elbow. @@ -6325,7 +6200,6 @@ Bats can eat up to 1,000 insects in an hour. Polar bears are not white-their fur is actually transparent. Flamingos eat with their head upside down. Bats are the only mammals that can fly, but their leg bones are so thin that it is almost impossible for them to walk. -A group of owls is called a parliament. Ants don't have lungs. Grizzly bears can run up to 30 miles per hour. Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart. @@ -6560,7 +6434,6 @@ Dolphins have names for each other and are the only species other than humans kn Elephants are unable to jump. Under their white fur, polar bears have black skin to help absorb heat from the sun. Cats don't have sweet taste buds and therefore can't taste sugar. -Wombat poop is cubed-shaped. Sloths can swim about three to four times faster than they can move on land. A flock of hummingbirds can be referred to as a hover, a glittering, a bouquet, a tune, or a shimmer. Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes drink flower nectar. @@ -6703,7 +6576,6 @@ Slugs have four noses. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years there were no reported cases of an ostrich burying its head in the sand. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. -A shrimp's heart is in its head. A snail can sleep for three years. The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead. Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure and even protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack. @@ -6770,7 +6642,6 @@ In England in the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word. According to many language experts, the most difficult kind of phrase to create is a palindrome, a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backward and forward. A few examples:Red rum, sir, is murder.Ma is as selfless as I am.Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.He lived as a devil, eh? The dot that appears over the letter i is called a "tittle." If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter A. -Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks, and spoons. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. @@ -6815,3 +6686,320 @@ On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. In Tokyo you can buy a toupee for your dog. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. +The world's oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years +Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust +Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world +The bumblebee bat is the world's smallest mammal +The circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long +There are parts of Africa in all four hemispheres +The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels +The world's first animated feature film was made in Argentina +German chocolate cake was invented in Texas +Marla Gibbs continued to work as a flight attendant for two years after being cast on a hit TV show +The Philippines consists of 7,641 islands +A one-way trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway involves crossing 3,901 bridges +The Golden Girls was supposed to have a different theme song +There's enough gold inside Earth to coat the planet +Cleveland was once the country's fifth-largest city +Human beings can use only a small fraction of Earth's water +Wally Amos is responsible for making more than just cookies famous +The brand name Spam is a combination of "spice" and "ham" +It takes a drop of water 90 days to travel the entire Mississippi River +People once ate arsenic to improve their skin +The first person processed at Ellis Island was a 15-year-old girl from Ireland +Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people +Lemons float, but limes sink +Professional athletes used to perform in vaudeville during the off-season +The first time the word "period" was used on TV in reference to menstruation was 1985 +McDonald's once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli +Some fungi create zombies, then control their minds +The first oranges weren't orange +There's only one letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name +A cow-bison hybrid is called a beefalo +Johnny Appleseed's fruits weren't for eating +Scotland has 421 words for snow +Samsung tests phone durability with a butt-shaped robot +The Windy City nickname has nothing to do with Chicago's weather +Peanuts aren't technically nuts +Armadillo shells are bulletproof +Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter +The longest English word is 189,819 letters long +"Running amok" is a medically recognized mental condition +Some octopus species lay 56,000 eggs at a time +Cats have fewer toes on their back paws +Kleenex tissues were originally intended for gas masks +Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful +That tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches +Turkeys can blush +Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple +The man with the world's deepest voice can make sounds humans can't hear +The current American flag was designed by a high school student +Cows don't have upper front teeth +Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically email tools to astronauts +Only a quarter of the Sahara Desert is sandy +Bananas grow upside down +There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive +Dogs sniff good smells with their left nostril +Avocados were named after reproductive organs +T. S. Eliot wore green makeup +The word "fizzle" started as a type of fart +Human noses and ears get bigger as we age +No number before 1,000 contains the letter A +The # symbol isn't officially called hashtag or pound +The French have their own name for a French kiss +You can thank the Greeks for calling Christmas "Xmas" +Movie trailers originally played after the movie +Mercedes invented a car controlled by a joystick +H&M actually stands for something +The U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017 +Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena +The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don't write names on the cups +Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long +There's only one U.S. state capital without a McDonald's +Europeans were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced +Humans aren't the only animals that dream +The inventor of the microwave appliance received only $2 for his discovery +The Eiffel Tower can grow more than six inches during the summer +Glitter may have originated on a ranch +Frankenstein's Creature is a vegetarian +Medical errors are a top cause of death +Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes +Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest +Ancient Egyptians used dead mice to ease toothaches +Cap'n Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch +Paint used to be stored in pig bladders +Humans have jumped farther than horses in the Olympics +The Terminator script was sold for $1 +Pigeon poop is the property of the British Crown +Onions were found in the eyes of an Egyptian mummy +Abraham Lincoln was a bartender +Beethoven never knew how to multiply or divide +Japan released sushi-inspired Kit Kats +An espresso maker was sent into space in 2015 +The word "aquarium" means "watering place for cattle" in Latin +An employee at Pixar accidentally deleted a sequence of Toy Story 2 during production +Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne started Apple Inc. on April Fools' Day +The inventor of the tricycle personally delivered two to Queen Victoria +Your brain synapses shrink while you sleep +A waffle iron inspired one of the first pairs of Nikes +Boars wash their food +Baseball umpires used to sit in rocking chairs +The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes +The world's first novel ends mid-sentence +The French-language Scrabble World Champion doesn't speak French +A woman called the police when her ice cream didn't have enough sprinkles +Uncle Ben's rice was air-dropped to World War II troops +The British Empire was the largest empire in world history +South American river turtles talk in their eggs +Penicillin was first called "mold juice" +The first stroller was engineered to be pulled by a goat (or animal of similar size) +May 20, 1873, is the "birthday" of blue jeans +170-year-old bottles of champagne were found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea +The MGM lion roar is trademarked +Neil Armstrong's hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000 +Irish bars used to be closed on Saint Patrick's Day +Nikola Tesla hated pearls +Thomas Edison is the reason you love cat videos +Brad Pitt suffered an ironic injury on a film set +Pregnancy tests date back to 1350 B.C.E. +Martin Luther King Jr. got a C in public speaking +Bees can make colored honey +Bananas glow blue under black lights +Wimbledon tennis balls are kept at 68 degrees Fahrenheit +Adult cats are lactose intolerant +Albert Einstein's eyeballs are in New York City +The Pope can't be an organ donor +A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup +The world's oldest toy is a stick +Polar bear fur is actually clear, and their skin is black. +Baby flamingos are born grey, not pink. +A woodpecker's tongue actually wraps all the way around its brain, protecting it from damage when it's hammering into a tree. +A shrimp's heart is located in its head. +Elephants suck on their trunks for comfort. +Anteaters have no teeth. +Nine-banded armadillos always have quadruplets, and they're always identical. +Wombat poop is cube-shaped. +Hippos and horses are actually distant relatives. +All clownfish are born male. +In the UK, The Queen legally owns all unmarked swans. +To keep from drifting apart, sea otters hold hands while they sleep. +Goats have accents. +Dolphins give names to each other. +Gorillas can catch human colds - you're probably still safe to go to the zoo with the sniffles, though. +Forget bald eagles. The turkey was once almost named the national bird. +A group of owls is called a parliament. +There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear. +Snails can regenerate their eyes. +Want to know if your pet turtle is a boy or girl? Listen closely! Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt. +A starfish can turn its stomach inside out. +French Poodles are actually from Germany. +Seahorses mate for life and can often be seen holding each other's tales. +A group of porcupines is called a prickle. +Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn't stop swearing. Polly wants her mouth washed out. +Sloths can hold their breaths for up to 40 minutes. +Henry VIII knighted all four of his "Grooms of Stool" - the people in charge of wiping his butt for him. +Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress four years before women could even vote. +Women couldn't apply for credit at a bank until 1974. +Before the invention of modern false teeth, dentures were commonly made from the teeth of dead soldiers. +In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh. +It was once considered sacrilegious to use a fork. +Abe Lincoln was a champion wrestler. He was also a licensed bartender. Maybe they should call him an "Abe of all trades." +George Washington owned a whiskey distillery. +More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War. +Joseph Stalin used to have people removed from photos after they died or were removed from office. +Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with the necessary items for making tea. +Pope Gregory IV once declared war on cats because he believed Satan used black cats. His declaration lead to the mass extermination of cats. +That lack of cats led to a rat infestation which led to the spread of the plague. +John Adams was the first president to live in the White House. +Go to bed! Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Challenger explosion have all been attributed to a lack of sleep. +The average person living in Sweden eats about 22 pounds of chocolate a year. +While the Wright Brothers are famous as a pair, they actually only flew together once. They promised their father they'd always fly separately. +Montana has three times as many cows as it does people. +Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice. +Ninety percent of the world's population lives above the equator. +Finland has more saunas than cars. +Sixty percent of the World's lakes (three million total) are located in Canada. +Virginia is the only state that has the same state flower and state tree, the Dogwood. +Think before you season. In Egypt, it's considered incredibly rude to salt food that has been served to you. +Ninety percent of Libya is desert. +The height of the Eiffel Tour can vary up to six inches, depending on the temperature. +Spend too much on drinks when you eat out? A small town in Italy actually has a fountain that serves free wine. +Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don't both end up with food poisoning. +Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day. +Want to go to Rome? Which one? There's a city named Rome on six out of seven continents. (You really dropped the ball, Antarctica.) +When visiting Key West, you're actually closer to Havana than you are to Miami. +Mary, of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" fame, was a real person and the song is based on a true story. +"Happy Birthday" was the first song ever played on Mars. Mars Rover Curiosity played the song to itself on its first anniversary on the planet. +While listening to music, your heart can sync to the rhythm. +President Nixon was an accomplished musician. He played five instruments, including the accordion. +Got a song stuck in your head? That's called an "earworm." +None of The Beatles could actually read music. +However, George Harrison could reportedly play 26 instruments. +Barry Manilow did not, in fact, write "I Write The Songs." +Metallica is the only band to perform on all seven continents. +Most department stores tend to play slower music, in order to slow down customers and keep them shopping longer. The opposite is true for restaurants. +Monaco's orchestra is bigger than its army. +A concert promoter once sold a thousand tickets to a Spice Girls concert in Hawaii that was never actually booked. Maybe that's where they got the idea for Fyre Fest. +Leo Fender, the inventor of the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, couldn't play guitar. +In 2016, Mozart sold more albums than Beyoncé. +During a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, someone donated $35,000 so that VH1 Classic would have to play "99 Luftballons" on repeat for an entire hour. +"A Boy Named Sue" wasn't written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it. +In 2015, Belfast police used ice cream truck music to deter teenage rioters. +Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators. +China didn't win its first Olympic medal until 1984. +The average golf ball has 336 dimples. +Tennis was originally played with bare hands. +The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in or host a Super Bowl. +Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame. +Some golf balls are filled with honey. +Despite taking about three hours to play out, the average baseball game only has about 18 minutes of active playing time. +MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case they split their pants. +Bo Jackson refused the teams that originally tried to draft him in both baseball and football. +Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts. +Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls once went eight seasons (starting in 1990) without a three-game losing streak. +NFL refs also get Super Bowl rings. +President Hubert Hoover invented a game called "Hooverball" which was a cross between tennis and volleyball and was played with a medicine ball. +Only one city has won three major championships in one year. In 1935, the Detroit Lions won the Super Bowl, the Tigers won the world series, and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup. +More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical professional baseball game. +You can't hum while plugging your nose. +Tomatoes have more genes than humans. +We're one to two centimeters taller in the morning than at night. +One quarter of all our bones are in our feet. +The human body contains enough fat to make about seven bars of soap. +You can't lick your elbow. +You can't tickle yourself. +By the time we die, we'll have spent roughly a year sitting on the toilet. +You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it. +Astronauts can grow up to two inches taller while they're in space. +Some blood vessels in a blue whale are actually big enough for humans to swim through. +We're the only species known to blush. +You only breathe out of one nostril at a time. +Babies are born with more bones than adults. (Babies have 300 bones while adults only have 206.) +Most newborns lose all the hair they were born with by the time they're six months old. +It's impossible to burp in space. +Everyone has their own unique smell, except identical twins. +Thumbs have their own pulse. +Goosebumps developed to make our ancestors' hair stand up, making them appear more threatening to predators. +A sneeze shoots through the air at 100 miles per hour, sending 10,000 germs flying. +Know how a bat or whale uses echolocation to communicate? Humans are also capable of echolocation. +Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve metal. +The longest hiccuping spell lasted a whopping 68 years. +Guide dogs do their "business" on command - to make things easier for their owners. So considerate! +In WWII British soldiers had to make do with only three sheets of toilet paper per day! +In Russia, beer was considered a soft drink, not alcohol, until 2011! +Strawberries are NOT berries, but bananas actually are! +A tomato is actually a fruit. +The cashew nuts we eat are actually attached to a large cashew apple that is used to make soft drinks in Brazil. Ca-shew on that fact! +Mice actually do not like cheese! They prefer sweets if given the choice - they like to eat fruit, seeds, and grains! +Turkey was probably not eaten at the first Thanksgiving - instead, wildfowl, goose, and even possibly... passenger pigeons and swans were consumed! +A flock of ravens is called a conspiracy. Dark stuff! +Caterpillars have 12, count 'em, 12 eyes! +Mice have pretty funny names: A female mouse is a doe and a male mouse is a buck. Baby mice are sometimes called pinkies because of their color and sometimes called pups. +Did you know that gorillas, monkeys, bonobos, and other primates make a new nest to sleep in every night?! +Chickens don't just eat seeds, they like to eat insects and also mice and lizards! Ew, chickens! +Giraffes don't just have long necks: They have long tongues! Their tongues are between 18 and 20 inches long. +In Arizona, you can't feed garbage to pigs without getting a permit. +Sea otters like to hold each other's paws when they sleep, so they don't drift apart while dreaming. How sweet is that?! +Did you know that jellyfish have been around even before dinosaurs? +All clownfish are born male! They can also all change their sex to female, but they can't turn it back to male after doing so. So Nemo could become a girl fish all along! +Did you know apples come from the same plant family as roses? So do plums, raspberries, and many other delicious fruits. Next time, instead of roses, just send your mother a lovely bouquet of plums! +The first Akita dog came to this country in 1937 - as a present for Helen Keller! +Turns out, a dog's paw print is just as unique as a human's. Good news for dog detectives! +A camel can drink up to 40 gallons of water in one go. That's seriously impressive! +Don't bring your crystal ball to Maryland! Fortune telling is illegal in the state. +Speaking of ferrets, did you know they used to be used to protect grain stores from rodents? +The technical term for a fear of long words is ""hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia." No way you can self-diagnose yourself with that one! +The White House has 35 bathrooms. So every bathroom break can be different for POTUS! +Greyhounds can run up to 45 mph. So don't challenge one to a race! +Hiking naked is illegal in Switzerland. Though we must say, it doesn't seem like a good idea in general! +A flock of flamingos is called... wait for it... a flamboyance! Fancy. +New York's Central Park is bigger than Monaco. That's right, one park is bigger than an entire country! +Using ferrets to hunt other animals is illegal in West Virginia. Good to know! +Don't let the chicken cross the road in Georgia (the country.) No, seriously. It's illegal! +Here's a fact to sit on: there are over 9,000 benches in Central Park. +Theodore Roosevelt's kids had a pet bear, badger, and hyena, to name but a few animals - and they brought them all to the White House! +There are over 700 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. That's a lot compared to 26 letters of alphabet! +A woodpecker's tongue is bigger than its entire head. It keeps it wrapped up around its brain to protect it from the impact of all that pecking! +Saturn's surface is less dense than water. That means it could float in your bathtub - if it were big enough. +The expression "heart of gold" was invented by Shakespeare. +To make one pound of honey, a bee has to fly 90,000 miles! Though one bee typically only makes one-twelfth of a teaspoon of the stuff in its lifetime. +Some lipsticks apparently contain fish scales. Eek! +An ostrich's eye is actually bigger than its brain. Ostriches also have the largest eye of any land animal. +The United States apparently makes 25 percent of the world's cheese. That's a whole lot of cheese! +Here's one to tickle your funny bone: the human hand has 54 bones. That's more than a quarter of the bones in the whole body. Wow! +Want a license plate in the shape of a polar bear? All you have to do is move to Nunavut Province in Canada! +How do you tell if a cranberry is ripe? It'll bounce like a rubber ball. +Most U.S. stamp adhesive contains about one-tenth of a calorie. British stamps could set you back 5.9 calories. Of course, one lick won't transfer all of that to your belly. +Here's a little funny and creepy fact: not only are groups of crows called murders, but the birds actually hold funerals for their dead. Spooky! +Bees are the only insect that produce food that people eat. Thanks, bees! +Squeamish? Don't go to any cheese shops in Sardinia, lest you find yourself face to face with Casu Marzu, a cheese that gets its taste from live maggots. Eek! +Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. Is your mind blown? +Jin Songhao of China won the world record for longest skin contact with snow at 46 minutes and 7 seconds! +The heaviest onion on record was grown by Pete Glazebrook of England. It weighed 17 pounds! +The title of tallest Mohawk goes to Kazuhito Watanabe, a Japanese fashion designer. His 'hawk' measures three feet 8.6 inches! +Elmer Fudd's original name was Egghead. +The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie mouse from the 1980s to the 2010s were married! +In some Harry Potter movie scenes where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are doing their Hogwarts schoolwork, the actors were actually doing their REAL schoolwork! +Forgetful? Move to Eastern Pennsylvania where the word "jawn" can be used to a person, place, or thing you just can't remember. +The oldest domestic cat on record lived for 38 years. She was Creme Puff of Austin, Texas. +Apparently, the world's fastest ant runs faster than Usain Bolt! +Little brown bats make for the longest nappers - in captivity, they nap up to 19.9 hours a day. Wish we could take a nap that long! +The longest noodle ever made is more than 10,000 feet long. That's almost two miles! Wonder how long it would take us to slurp that? +Otto the bulldog broke the record for a dog to skate through the longest human tunnel when he skated through the legs of 30 people without any assistance. Otto, you're our hero. +A flock of peacocks is called a party. Party hard, peacocks! +The Supreme Court has its own basketball court, with a great nickname: "The highest court on the land!" Get it?! +Time stops at the speed of light. +The average human body carries more bacteria cells than human cells. +In their lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the Earth. +Humans wouldn't be able to taste food without saliva. +If Betelgeuse exploded right now, the star's last light show would brighten our sky for around two months. +Oona Chaplin, who played Robb Stark's wife in Game of Thrones, is Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter. +The founder of sportswear companies Puma and Adidas were brothers! Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler is the brain behind Puma, while his big bro Adolf "Adi" Dassler gave the world Adidas. +The only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in any American state is q. +The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed in Chicago, Illinois, by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. +While SPAM is most popular in Hawaii, it was actually invented in Minnesota. The state even serves as home to the SPAM museum! +Glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets hold nearly 69 percent of the world's freshwater. +Whale songs can be used by scientists to sonically map out the ocean floor. +The first person charged with speeding in a vehicle was going eight miles per hour. +Hair and nails typically grow faster during pregnancy. +Cardinals cover themselves in ants to get rid of lice and other harmful parasites that might be in their feathers. \ No newline at end of file